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• Fostered alignment of product goals and milestones by collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders, ensuring sprint deliverables were synchronized with program milestones.• Served as the primary point of contact for product status updates and issue resolution. Prepared and delivered insightful presentations to communicate program status, challenges, dependencies and strategies to stakeholders and executive leadership.• Skillfully managed timelines, dependencies, and obstacles, ensuring adequate resource allocation and fostering stakeholder collaboration. Identified opportunities for enhancing efficiencies and promoting functional coordination, escalating issues as needed.• Led change management efforts across departments to ensure compliance with risk, controls, and regulatory standards.• Ensured the technology and service delivery roadmap supports the solution strategy and are sustainable to meet the needs of the various solutions being delivered on that product.• Formulated comprehensive project timelines, employing forecasting techniques to improve on-time product delivery, and aligned scope with the Program roadmap in partnership with Product Owners, Scrum Master, Project Managers and Development Team.• Directed the entire product delivery lifecycle, overseeing intake, dependency management, release management, product operationalization, delivery feasibility assessment, and product performance reporting.• Conduct portfolio performance analysis and generate reports for stakeholders, highlighting key performance indicators and investment strategies.

Remote

• Documented business case opportunities derived from process analysis, proposing, and implementing process improvements.• Partnered with tech team leaders and subject matter experts to develop implementation strategies for enterprise policies.• Facilitated collaboration and transparency among cross-functional teams, driving execution of solutions within allotted timelines.• Summarize Team PI Objectives into Program PI Objectives (the RTE) and publish them for visibility and transparency.• Assisted in tracking the execution of features and capabilities while facilitating periodic synchronization events, including the ART sync.• Assisted with economic decision-making by facilitating feature and capability estimation by teams and the roll-up to Epics, where necessary• Coached leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets.• Managed risks and dependencies, escalating and tracking impediments while Providing inputs on resourcing to address critical bottlenecks.• Encourage collaboration between teams and System and Solution Architects/Engineering• Work with Product and Solution Management, Product Owners, and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment.• Improved the flow of value through value streams by improving and assessing the practices associated with DevOps and Release on Demand in the Continuous Delivery Pipeline. Help drive the Lean User Experience (UX) innovation cycle.• Utilized JIRA and Confluence to gather information and support decision-making processes.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Coached and mentored development team on adopting Agile Principles, quality deliverables and self-organization. • Provided guidance to the development team to ensure alignment with Scrum guidelines, while motivating and protecting them from distractions. • Collaborated with development team to define standard practices for continuous integration and delivery using Jenkins. • Knowledge and experience on Agile techniques like User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games. • Worked closely with Product Owner to refine and maintain the Product Backlog. • Collaborated with project management team to identify potential risks and assist with development of preventive plans. • Organized and facilitated Released planning, Sprint planning, Daily Scrum Stand-up, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives and other Scrum related meetings. • Introduced, coached and mentored the organization in the implementation of Agile values and principles. • Educated management and development team on the importance of automation and continuous integration in delivery of quality software. • Focused on developing trusted and collaborative team environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame or being judged without a complete focus on problem resolution. • Facilitated planning meeting for effort estimation and prioritization of user stories using Planning Poker, Fibonacci series as measurement technique and MoSCoW as prioritization technique. • Tracked metrics such as Velocity, Burndown and Burnup charts, release progress and addressed issues as they arose using Azure DevOps. • Worked with Product Owners to support short-and -long term release planning, and to maintain Product backlog health in preparation for execution under SAFE framework. • Led multiple Scrum teams to ensure that the Scrum framework is used as intended by educating the team on Agile practices and facilitating Scrum events/ceremonies.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Managed large enterprise technology projects adhering to agile Scrum/SAFE methodologies• Managed project’s scope and timeline• Coordinated agile ceremonies such as sprints, retrospective meetings, and daily stand-ups• Coached team members in Agile frameworks• Worked with team and PO to create SOW, project charter and project plans when needed.• Facilitated internal communication and effective collaboration• Worked with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests• Resolved conflicts and remove obstacles that occur• Helped teams implement changes effectively• Use of version one in tracking our day to day activities from dependencies, feature and story level• Ensured deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint• Guided development teams to comply with agile methodology

California, United States

• Organized Sprint Planning meetings, which includes reviewing the Product Backlog and collaborating with the Product Owner and the Core Team to identify user stories to be included in the next Sprint• Conducted Sprint Review Meetings to review the scope and functionality delivered successfully in the previous Sprint• Organized Sprint Retrospectives with the Scrum Team to improve process & techniques continuously• Ensured the team abides by the SCRUM rules and guidelines• Held Daily SCRUM meetings to allow the Scrum Team to synchronize their work and communicate issues and road-blocks to the Product Owner• Use of Rally in tracking our projects from feature and story level• Empowered the Scrum Team, and shield the Scrum Team from outside influences and distractions• Assisted the Product Owner in maintaining the Product Backlog• Worked effectively as part of the Scrum Team to accomplish tasks and meet deadlines• Established a sense of urgency to complete tasks in a timely, cost-effective manner with top quality• Maintained an exceptional level of customer focus centered on integrity and transparency.